Captain Phillips wants you to feel for the pirates
On Sunday, April 12, 2009, US Navy Seals killed three Somali
pirates and rescued the captain of the American cargo ship Maersk Alabama,
Richard Phillips, who had been taken hostage after the pirates boarded the ship
four days earlier. The dramatic rescue was authorised by President Barack Obama
and was widely covered by the media at the time. Now actor Tom Hanks is set to
appear in cinemas as Captain Phillips, for the self-titled film, which is
widely tipped to grant Hanks his sixth Oscar nomination. Yet, as our
exclusive featurette shows, this is a story that starts long before in the
American state of Vermont and in the African nation of Somalia, as two worlds are
set to collide.
"That relationship between a captain from our world and a captain from theirs is what drives the film," says director Paul Greengrass, who genuinely sees the film as a tale of Captain Phillips and Muse, the Somali pirate who takes Phillips hostage.
"That relationship between a captain from our world and a captain from theirs is what drives the film," says director Paul Greengrass, who genuinely sees the film as a tale of Captain Phillips and Muse, the Somali pirate who takes Phillips hostage.
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